POP3 Failed to check the POP3 account

I have been trying to figure out why I get these two error messages in Event
Viewer alternating for a while, then connect and get all the mail
downloaded, only to start doing it again a bit later. Eventually I get all
the mail, but of course with great delay due to this problem.
Does it look like a problem on my end or on yahoo's end?


Event Type: Error
Event Source: POP3 Connector
Event Category: Download
Event ID: 12050
Date: 9/10/2003
Time: 10:31:07 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SBS
Description:
POP3: Failed to check the POP3 account for acsokai at host
pop.mail.yahoo.com on port 110. The error is 10060

Event Type: Error
Event Source: POP3 Connector
Event Category: Download
Event ID: 12050
Date: 9/10/2003
Time: 10:16:08 PM
User: N/A
Computer: SBS
Description:
POP3: Failed to check the POP3 account for acsokai at host
pop.mail.yahoo.com on port 110. The error is 10060

Javier
Wed Sep 10 22:10:48 CDT 2003

Just in case you don't know... go to www.eventid.net to know what the
message exactly means. You can see it here:
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=12050&source=POP3

OK... from my experience this is probably at Yahoo's end. They suck...
that's the bottomline. Sometimes you can be 10min... 1hr... or even a couple
of hours without been able to retrieve from their POP3 servers. To be honest
sometimes it works flawlessly... but then one day starts to get stuck and
it's like this for days and then everything returns back to normal (to
repeat the cycle again soon)... and the thing is that you can see the mail
in the webmail interface waiting to be picked.... it is so sad.

Change ISP or better yet use SMTP.

My $0.02,

Javier

"Attila Csokai" <acsokai@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:en8RJBBeDHA.3428@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I have been trying to figure out why I get these two error messages in
Event
> Viewer alternating for a while, then connect and get all the mail
> downloaded, only to start doing it again a bit later. Eventually I get all
> the mail, but of course with great delay due to this problem.
> Does it look like a problem on my end or on yahoo's end?
>
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: POP3 Connector
> Event Category: Download
> Event ID: 12050
> Date: 9/10/2003
> Time: 10:31:07 PM
> User: N/A
> Computer: SBS
> Description:
> POP3: Failed to check the POP3 account for acsokai at host
> pop.mail.yahoo.com on port 110. The error is 10060
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: POP3 Connector
> Event Category: Download
> Event ID: 12050
> Date: 9/10/2003
> Time: 10:16:08 PM
> User: N/A
> Computer: SBS
> Description:
> POP3: Failed to check the POP3 account for acsokai at host
> pop.mail.yahoo.com on port 110. The error is 10060
>
>
>